Jeffrey Collins/AP. On July 14, 2004, Mahdi stole a .380 caliber pistol from his neighbor, a set of Virginia license plates and the neighbor's station wagon and headed for North Carolina.

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed in South Carolina on April 11, 2025, for the murder of off-duty Orangeburg Public Safety Officer James Myers in 2004. Mahdi also killed a store clerk in North Carolina.

Mahdi's death is the end of a busy time in South Carolina's death chamber. He is the fifth inmate killed since September after the state had not had any executions since 2011. No other inmates are ...

Mahdi's execution was the 12th inmate in the U.S. this year and the third in South Carolina. Another inmate was executed in the U.S. this week: Michael Tanzi by lethal injection in Florida on Tuesday.

South Carolina is set to execute 42-year-old Mikal Mahdi by firing squad for killing an off-duty police officer who was ambushed, shot nine times and set on fire.

Mahdi was pronounced dead at 6:05 p.m. after he was struck in the heart by three bullets. AP. Mahdi continued to groan and take deep breaths for about two minutes before taking one final gasp ...

Mikal Mahdi is set to be executed on Friday, April 11. He chose firing squad over lethal injection or electrocution, just as Sigmon did . Mahdi, 41, was convicted of the 2004 death of Orangeburg ...

A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its first death by bullets.. Mikal Mahdi, who pleaded guilty to murder for ...